Democrat's Ohio governor bid still uncertain

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A longtime Cincinnati-area officeholder's press conference on whether he will continue his bid for Ohio governor has been canceled.

Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune (POOR'-toon) was expected Thursday to announce a decision on whether he would officially file to run. However, The Cincinnati Enquirer's politics editor Carl Weiser says the newspaper canceled the event it planned to live-stream from its newsroom after Portune said he hasn't made a decision.

Portune said on Dec. 30 that he was challenging Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) County Executive Ed FitzGerald for the Democratic nomination. FitzGerald has been running for months, but Portune said he was hearing from rank-and-file Democrats a desire for a choice in the May 6 primary.

The 55-year-old Portune has been crisscrossing the state to gauge whether he could generate enough support.